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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As irony would have it, a 3.5 with either a legacy (assuming moola donation per diems met) or a sports recruiting preference has it all over the 4.0 with no bump. Sidwell is a strong private school, but there are many others like that. It's delusional to think that an Ivy or a NECSAC takes kids from any elite private these days.

More and more it is about where you get a graduate degree in most desired professions, so going to any decent college and again getting great grades matters more than just getting a boost to attend Duke or an Ivy. My son has private lessons from a Dartmouth graduate who is unemployed and living with his parents. Success in life is hard earned and requires a pattern of success and achievement at every step.

A kid with a 3.5 at Sidwell is a great kid with a great future, but how great is up to him / her regardless of where the kid attends undergrad. Remember, a 3.8 at Kenyon is likely to find a decent first job or gain entrance to a fine grad school. A 2.6 in sociology at Duke = giving back yard lacrosse lessons to kids at $75 in cash paid by a loser like me who went to Chico State but started and sold a company for over $100 mil. I love the "where did you go to college" thing at coctail parties. It suits my asshole nature so well. [/quote]

I agree with you that personal qualities are the ultimate determinant, but I cannot go back in time and alter my kid even if I wanted to. But I can perhaps help him on a slightly better path.

Also, not sure that your unemployed Dartmouth graduate living with his parents is the right comparison. You need to hold the kid fixed and compare schools, not pick different kids from different schools. Given that your son was unemployed and living in the basement is he more likely to land on his feet eventually with a Dartmouth degree or with one from, say, to pick a good state school, Ohio State? Also, given 6-year completion rates at Dartmouth and state schools. maybe the kid would still not have graduated.

[b]And if you had gone to Harvard, rather than Chico State, maybe you would be looking at billions, not $100m.[/b] No easy calls.[/quote]

Aren't you bitter!  How much is YOUR company worth?
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